The latest phase in the company's Clean Water Act case will determine how many billions of dollars BP should pay in penalties.
It's the second of five to be opened before Chinese New Year.
The Dow wavered slightly Tuesday after China's economy grew at its slowest pace in 24 years.
The ratings agency this week lowered the credit ratings of eight oil and gas companies as crude oil prices plunge past $50 a barrel.
Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, which is investigating the crash, will release a preliminary report on Jan. 28.
The number of accidents, including heat strokes, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has nearly doubled to 55 in this fiscal year.
The United Nations said that high levels of unemployment among young people could eventually lead to "social unrest."
In a move seen as helping Twitter expand its market and add a lower-cost engineering center, the company is buying India's ZipDial.
A share split being considered at the Korean tech giant suggests that Samsung's heir apparent could be pushing the company to change faster.
Northern Ireland has been under pressure to cut its dependence on a 10 billion-pound annual grant from London to run its public services.
Mervyn King said he was concerned about a persistent weakness in global economic demand, six years on from the depths of the financial crisis.
Only days earlier, the World Bank reduced its forecast to 3 percent, down from the 3.4 percent it had estimated six months ago.
It was the first time since 1999 that the government had missed a yearly growth target for gross domestic product (GDP).
Department store JC Penney will bring back its popular catalogs after taking a break for five years.
President Obama's plan to increase taxes on the rich is DOA in the Republican Congress.
Authorities cleared the plane after searching for explosives.
The remarks from the PLO's chief negotiator came on a day marked by gunfire, protests and a car bombing.
Oil prices have dropped by more than half since June as output around the world soared while demand growth slowed.
The French leader's comments reinforced expectations that the ECB will follow other major central banks into quantitative easing.
Indie filmmaker Ted Hope will head Amazon's new original movies division.
And that might not be so bad -- a move from exports to consumption-led growth could bring long-term stability.
Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi said on Sunday Iraq pumped 4 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in December, its highest ever.
Investigators said that there is nothing in the cockpit voice recordings to indicate a terrorist link to the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501.
Indian pharmaceutical exports to the U.S. in 2013 amounted to $4.5 billion, or over a tenth of all Indian exports to the U.S. that year.
The plunge wiped out around $315 billion of market value from the Shanghai stock exchange, the country's biggest.
In 2012, the Indian government had handed Air India a $5.8 billion bailout package, with funds to be pumped in over nine years.
The upbeat figures contrast with official data.
An Oxfam study has found that the richest 80 people currently have the same amount of collective wealth as those in the bottom 3.5 billion.
Ford Motor’s previous recall involved nearly 3,000 F-350, F-450 and F-550 trucks, which are equipped with 6.7-liter diesel engines.
Two more bodies were recovered Sunday from near where the AirAsia plane's fuselage was found on the sea bed.